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Svenfan1234 · 04-06-2016, 02:24 PM

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Originally Posted by opus

It's basically sketch comedy, mostly about TV. You can find it all over YouTube.

Cool. Shout has also released some DVDs of it

mets82 · 04-06-2016, 04:33 PM

I might give the show a shot.

70s show watcher · 04-06-2016, 05:19 PM

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Originally Posted by MrCleveland

Fully agree...I may buy the DVD's one day.

me too

Edison · 04-06-2016, 05:37 PM

Fine programming.

Torgo · 04-06-2016, 06:59 PM

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Originally Posted by Svenfan1234

Cool. Shout has also released some DVDs of it

Being a Svengoolie fan you might appreciate the recurring sketch where Joe Flaherty plays a horror movie TV host:

treky · 04-07-2016, 12:45 AM

it was originally a half-hour and ran in first-run syndication then NBC picked it up and they expanded it to 90 minutes then it went to Prism which was a cable network at the time (the 80s) and became an hour.

JSP · 04-07-2016, 01:08 AM

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Originally Posted by treky

it was originally a half-hour and ran in first-run syndication then NBC picked it up and they expanded it to 90 minutes then it went to Prism which was a cable network at the time (the 80s) and became an hour.

It went to Cinemax and they did 45 minute shows after NBC canceled it, not hour long shows on Prism.

MrCleveland · 04-07-2016, 12:44 PM

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Originally Posted by 70s show watcher

me too

I'm a big fan of John Candy...I even made a six-degrees of seperation with John Candy because of it.

Example...

Ray Liotta

Ray Liotta's big movie was GoodFellas which also co-starred Joe Pesci. Joe Pesci was in JFK which also starred...John Candy!

mets82 · 04-07-2016, 02:32 PM

So was SCTV like Saturday Night Live? Let me ask this, which show was better? Also, when they were both on at the sametime, which was better?

Torgo · 04-07-2016, 03:18 PM

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Originally Posted by mets82

So was SCTV like Saturday Night Live? Let me ask this, which show was better? Also, when they were both on at the sametime, which was better?

I'd say it was equal to the SNL of the 70's, I prefer SCTV to SNL over the rest of SNL's run. As a whole I prefer the cast of SCTV with the likes of Martin Short, John Candy, Catherine O'Hara, Eugene Levy, Joe Flaherty, Rick Moranis, Dave Thomas, Andrea Martin.

Bit 'o trivia: Martin Short did his Ed Grimley character on both SCTV and SNL.

treky · 04-08-2016, 02:28 AM

yea, but SCTV didn't have very many musical numbers (every once in a while they did but it would always be a part of the sketch-for instance if a sketch was set in a nightclub they have a singer who was a guest on the show performing) and the episodes didn't have a host.
I read somewhere that when it was a half-hour a lot of stations would show it right before or right after SNL-I remember the NBC affiliate in my city used to show it right after.

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04-06-2016, 05:37 PM	#19
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04-07-2016, 02:32 PM	#24
mets82 Member Forum Veteran Join Date: Mar 14, 2011 Location: Connecticut Posts: 5,058	So was SCTV like Saturday Night Live? Let me ask this, which show was better? Also, when they were both on at the sametime, which was better?

04-08-2016, 02:28 AM	#26
treky star trek fan Eternal Member Forum Fanatic Join Date: Feb 25, 2002 Location: Conshohocken, pennsylvania Posts: 14,490	yea, but SCTV didn't have very many musical numbers (every once in a while they did but it would always be a part of the sketch-for instance if a sketch was set in a nightclub they have a singer who was a guest on the show performing) and the episodes didn't have a host. I read somewhere that when it was a half-hour a lot of stations would show it right before or right after SNL-I remember the NBC affiliate in my city used to show it right after.